Municipality

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  • noun. A political unit, such as a city, town, or village, incorporated for local self-government.
  • noun. A body of officials appointed to manage the affairs of a local political unit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A town or city possessed of corporate privileges of local self-government; a community under municipal jurisdiction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
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  • noun. people living in a town or city having local self-government
  • noun. an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government
  • Word Usage
    "When these have accumulated to a sufficient size to be troublesome, the municipality is apt to go to the legislature to permit funding of those current liabilities, which, if it does not add insult to injury, at least adds interest to principal and passes on a delayed but increased burden for other Councils to worry over and the taxpayers to wrestle with, which brings me to a second fundamental cause viz:"
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